Do you like 80s music?

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I do.

A lot of it, yeah. Some of it's songs which were in the Top 40 when I was a kid; some of it's more towards the indie side of thgins, such as The Smiths and The Monochrome Set. Also Madness and XTC.

with the exception of iron maiden, no.

95% of the music i listen to is fairly modern.

considering I lived through it...yes...
And after 10 years of 70s music (especially disco at the end), anything would have been an improvement...

I love 80s music! Here are my favourite albums of the 80s:

1. Einstürzende Neubauten - Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T.
2. Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels
3. Einstürzende Neubauten - Kollaps
4. Glenn Branca - The Ascension
5. Black Flag - Damaged
6. Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory
7. Half Japanese - 1/2 Gentlemen/Not Beasts
8. La Monte Young - The Well-Tuned Piano 81 X 25, 6:17:50 - 11:18:59 PM NYC
9. P16. D4 - Kühe in 1/2 Trauer
10. Jandek - Chair Beside a Window
11. Keiji Haino - Watashi-Dake?
12. Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa
13. Peter Frohmader - Through Time and Mystery
14. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
15. Colin Newman - A-Z
16. MX-80 Sound - Out of the Tunnel
17. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
18. King Snake Roost - Things That Play Themselves
19. Current 93 - Dogs Blood Rising
20. Swans - Filth
21. Public Image Ltd. - Flowers of Romance
22. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
23. Boredoms - Soul Discharge
24. David Thomas - The Sound of the Sand and Other Songs of the Pedestrians
25. Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
26. Einstürzende Neubauten - Fünf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala
27. Swans - Children of God
28. b***h Magnet - Umber
29. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
30. Camper Van Beethoven - Camper Van Beethoven
31. Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun
32. Stan Ridgway - The Big Heat
33. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
34. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
35. Voivod - Nothingface
36. The Flaming Lips - Telepathic Surgery
37. Tuxedomoon - Half-Mute
38. Rudimentary Peni - Cacophony
39. American Music Club - California
40. Dead Can Dance - The Serpent's Egg
41. Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting in a Room
42. Peter Gabriel - Passion
43. My Dad Is Dead - The Taller You Are, the Shorter You Get
44. White Zombie - Soul Crusher
45. Metallica - Master of Puppets
46. Giacinto Scelsi - Aion/Pfhat/Konx-Om-Pax
47. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
48. SPK - Leichenshrei
49. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
50. Cocteau Twins - Treasure

That's a pretty nice list.

Yeah, the majority of the music I listen to is from that decade. There's just something about the production values and songwriting from that era I think I'm in love with.

The 80s get a bad rap, though. There's a lot more to that decade than hair metal and Huey Lewis and the News. I think more and more people are starting to realize that. Slowly.

Yes. It was a golden age for alternative rock music

These are my top 20 personal favorite 80's songs
1. Joy Division "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (1980)
2. The Smiths "How Soon is Now?" (1985)
3. My Bloody Valentine "You Made Me Realise" (1988)
4. The Cure "A Forest" (1980)
5. The Jam "Start!" (1980)
6. Violent Femmes "Blister in the Sun" (1983)
7. New Order "Blue Monday" (1985)
8. Echo & The Bunnymen "The Killing Moon" (1984)
9. Dramarama "Anything Anything (I'll Give You)" (1982)
10. They Might Be Giants "She's An Angel" (1986)
11. The Fall "Hip Priest" (1982)
12. The Pixies "Gigantic" (1988)
13. Bauhaus "Terror Couple Kill Colonel" (1980)
14. Beastie Boys "Hey Ladies" (1989)
15. Mission of Burma "Academy Fight Song" (1980)
16. Love and Rockets "No New Tale to Tell" (1987)
17. The Stone Roses "I Wanna Be Adored" (1989)
18. Public Image Ltd. "Rise" (1986)
19. Cocteau Twins "Love's Easy Tears" (1986)
20. Ultravox "Vienna" (1980)

Yes, except for the heavy metal music. Too loud for me.

Who ya gonna call?.... Yes I love the 80s
The metal was great too, not just the silly pop songs lol.

On these I concur:

Love and Rockets "No New Tale to Tell" (1987)
The Stone Roses "I Wanna Be Adored" (1989)
Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden

add to that

Julian Cope - Fried (yeah, the entire album)
The Chameleons UK - Swamp Thing
Bauhaus - In The Flat Field (song and album)

Yeah, there are others in your lists, but these struck me, namely because "no new tale" was one of my favorite songs growing up....Camper Van Beethoven had some of the most brilliant lyrics of all time..and I didn't think anyone else had ever heard of The Spirit of Eden album. And "I Wanna Be Adored" just holds some good memories for me....

And I would have also picked Current 93 but I only ever had one of their albums...and I forgot the name...and I was worried someone would want to talk about it with me and I would have to claim ignorance.

I'd like to add these:

Chrome - Red Exposure, Blood On The Moon, Third From The Sun
Einsturzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch, Zeichnungen das Patienten O.T.
G.I.S.M. - Detestation
S.W.A.N.S. - Greed/Holy Money/Young God
Vagtazo Halottkemek - A Világösztön Kiugrasztása
Discharge - See Nothing,Say Nothing,
Christian Death - Only Theatre Of Pain
Saccharine Trust - Surviving You Always
The Minutemen - Project Mersh
Raw Power - Screams From The Gutter
Salvation Army - She Turns To Flowers (Available with the revised band name of Before 3 O'Clock)
Last Exit - Iron Path
GG Allin & The Jabbers - Banned in Boston, Is,Was, and Always Shall Be
Big Black - Atomizer
Feederz - Ever Feel Like Killing Your Boss?
Lustmord - Paradise Disowned
Mission Of Burma - The Horrible Truth About Burma
Patife Band - Corredor Polones
Government Issue - Live!
Koenji Hyakkei - Viva Koenji
The Gerogerigegege - Sexual Behavior In The Human Male
p**** Galore - Groovy Hate F**k
Butthole Surfers - Another Man's Sac, Rembrandt Pussyhorse
Angry Samoans - Back From Samoa
Killing Joke - What's This For!
CRASS - Best Before '84
SS Decontrol - Get It Away
The Bevis Frond - Tryptich
The Residents - Live In Japan
Prince Far I - Dry Tuff Dub Encounter
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Bongwater - Double Bummer
Wire - The Ideal Copy
Killdozer - 12 Point Buck
Stickdog - Human
NOMEANSNO - The Day Everything Became Nothing
Sonic Youth - Halloween

The earliest material is harsh tape loops and chanting, not at all similar to their more popular "neo-folk" period. I'll admit Thunder Perfect Mind is a great album, perhaps their best, but the period I find most consistently enjoyable is the material up until and including Imperium.

I like 80s music. Speaking about this, I'm into alot of old skool music (60s, 70s, 80s).

I think I had Earth Covers Earth

I don't know if it was their best, but it had some powerful, haunting sounds. Liked it a lot.

That's from quite early on in their neo-folk period. I highly recommend Thunder Perfect Mind.

At least 90% of my music collection is from the 80s, BOTH mainstream and alternative, so go figure!